Senior FinOps Engineer

Why Join Us?

We are seeking an experienced Senior FinOps Engineer to join our growing FinOps organization. As part of our team, you'll play a crucial role in optimizing cloud spend, driving financial accountability, and implementing best practices across our technology infrastructure.

As a Senior FinOps Engineer, you'll bridge the gap between finance, technology, and business stakeholders to establish a culture of cost awareness and financial responsibility. You'll leverage your technical expertise and financial acumen to implement FinOps practices that align business value with cloud costs.

What We Offer

• Career growth opportunities in a rapidly evolving field

• Collaborative and innovative work environment

• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge cloud technologies

• Flexible work arrangements

• Professional development support and certification reimbursement

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation and enhancement of FinOps practices across the organization

• Design and implement cost allocation strategies, tagging policies, and showback/chargeback mechanisms

• Develop and maintain cloud cost forecasting models and budgets

• Identify cost optimization opportunities through detailed analysis of cloud resource usage

• Create and maintain dashboards and reports to provide visibility into cloud spending

• Collaborate with engineering teams to build cost-aware architectures and implement cost controls

• Partner with finance teams to incorporate cloud costs into financial planning processes

• Drive automation of FinOps processes where possible

• Stay current with evolving cloud pricing models and optimization strategies

• Educate and mentor teams on FinOps principles and cloud cost management

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure engineering, with at least 3 years focused on cloud financial management/FinOps

• Deep understanding of major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their pricing models

• Experience using FinOps tools

• Strong skills in data analysis and visualization tools

• Proficiency with infrastructure as code

• Experience with cost allocation methodologies and chargeback models

• Solid understanding of financial concepts as they apply to technology investments

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate complex technical and financial concepts to diverse audiences

• FinOps Foundation certification preferred (FinOps Certified Practitioner)

Technical Skills

• Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP (certification in at least one platform preferred)

• Experience with AI/ML for FinOps (cost optimization, anomaly detection, forecasting)

• Programming/Scripting: Python, Bash, PowerShell

• Data analysis and visualization tools: PowerBI

• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation

• Containerization and Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, ECS

• CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI

• Database Systems: Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases